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From [here]( www.newsweek.com/right-wi. . .




"If you're calling yourself nonbinary, you have dehumanized yourself, because human beings exist in a sex binary: male and female," Walsh said. "If you're rejecting that, you are rejecting your human identity, and so you've already dehumanized yourself. You are actually an 'it.'"


 



This makes an assumption on how to define what is male or female. Likewise he is making a definition as a strawman.

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I believe this would be a False Dichotomy as well. You eighter fit into standard gender categories or you are not fully human.

The problem is, he is making a claim "because human beings exist in a sex binary" and stating it as a fact, when this is precisely what is up for debate. His argument does presuppose that his position is already correct. Even if he were right and this were an irrefutable fact, the presupposition still makes this a bad argument, persuasion-wise.

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